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It is tough to celebrate autumn when it’s 77F and the air feels like soup.

The signs as fall aesthetics

  • Aries: bonfires, cinnamon, golden autumn sunlight, stepping on leaves and feeling them crunch under your feet, halloween
  • Taurus: tea lights, oversized sweaters, hot spiced apple cider, autumn wreaths, brown sugar
  • Gemini: forests filled with changing leaves, fall fairy lights, jack-o-lanterns, candy corn, crisp apples
  • Cancer: cozy blankets, red noses and cheeks from the cold, the first sip of a pumpkin spice latte, baggy clothes and messy hair, rainy days cozying up with blankets and warm drinks
  • Leo: boots and socks, caramel apples and candies, thanksgiving festivities and food, the feeling of drinking something warm on a cool day
  • Virgo: crisp air, pumpkin patches, rainy days, farmer's markets, the smell of cinnamon in houses and stores
  • Libra: the feeling of being bundled up, hayrides, Halloween candy, driving with the windows down on a cool sunny day
  • Scorpio: hardwood floors, hot chocolate, seeing your breath in the cold, Halloween decorations, roasting marshmallows on an open fire
  • Sagittarius: apple picking, fuzzy socks that keep your feet warm, walks in the woods bundled up in cozy clothes, the smell of fire in the cold, trick or treating at dusk
  • Capricorn: black coffee, overcast days, chilly mornings and nights, flannel shirts, pumpkin pie
  • Aquarius: jumping into piles of leaves, reading outside in the cool air, scarecrows, feeling the warmth of sunlight on a cold day
  • Pisces: haunted houses, drinking hot drinks outside on chilly days, apple pie, foggy days, frost on the leaves and grass in the mornings

captoring:

every time you ridicule a nasty person’s appearance publicly there is chance it’s going to reach a vulnerable person who sees themselves in their features 

kidsneedscience:

The Equinox on Earth and Saturn. Yes, Saturn!

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, get ready for the Autumnal equinox, which hits the East Coast of the United States at  10:21 am Eastern Daylight Time.  But did you know that Earth is not the only planet to enjoy equinoxes and solstices?  

This morning, the earth marked the point in its journey around the sun at which day and night are equal. The word equinox comes from Medieval Latin equinoxium meaning equality of night (and day) from the Latin word aequinoctium meaning the equinoxes from aequus meaning equal and nox (in the genetive singular form noctis) meaning night. Many European languages that share common Proto-Indo European roots share this form-the word to express the equality of night and day but only refers to night. A few (the Russian равноденствие for example) express it as equal-day.  

Any planet that has tilt to its axis will have two days in its year in which the tilt reaches maximum and mimimum points as well as two days in its year in which the day and night are equal.  For a planet like Saturn, with an orbital period that lasts 29 years, an equinox occurs every 15 years.  When Saturn had its last equinox, the Cassini Imaging Team was there and compiled this composite of Saturn’s rings as they were pointed directly at the Sun and thus thrown largely in shadow.  It was a mystery for many years why Saturn’s rings waxed and waned, but modern telescopes and technology give us a very clear image of what exactly is happening.  Thanks to NASA and the Cassini Imaging Team we can now see Saturn’s rings up close and in shadow.

Images courtesy NASA and Cassini Imaging Team, images in the Public Domain.

giffingsharks:

“I understand that it is dangerous, it is a wild animal. They’re actually cautions and cognitive, they’re calculated. It’s misunderstood and misconstrued as they’re ravenous, mindless, man-eating machines. That’s not how they are.” [video]